Texas Pete

Texas Pete is a retail brand name for a hot sauce in the United States. It is manufactured by the TW Garner Food Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. On the heat scale, it registers a 6 for spiciness. While the brand began as a local product, it has now spread throughout the eastern part of the United States and has become one of the more popular hot-sauce condiments, though still far behind McIlhenny Company's Tabasco brand pepper sauce. The brand is best know for its 3.0 oz bottles with their bright red sauce, shaker top, and white and yellow lable featuring the name in red and "Texas Pete" a red silhouette cowboy.

Texas Pete owes its popularity to several features. First, it's palitable. Since it's not as hot as Tabasco Sauce, people who will not eat the latter may eat the former. Second, it's affordable. Texas Pete is one of the least expensive retail brand hot sauces. Finally, it has a high exposure in its home market. In areas were Texas Pete is available, it is one of the sauces most often used by resturants, especially local resturants. Therefore, people in these areas have a high rate of exposure to Texas Pete.

One of the controversies surronding the sauce is the inclusion of xanthan gum, which gives the sauce a thicker, smoother texture that some hot sauce fans find unpalitable.

Texas Pete also appears on

Texas Pete and the Revolutions are also a ska band from Ida, Michigan.

External links

• The Texas Pete home page
• The Texas Pete and the Revolutions home page